23.
….the day IPM died
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December 1990
35 OMAF field offices closed
All except 6 Ag. Rep positions in north axed
Replaced by internet and 1-800 number

24.
"Let’s say I want to try a new seed this year. I go to the crop
guy at the feed store, well, of course he going to tell me to
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buy his product. When we had the OMAFRA office doing
research they gave an unbiased opinion.
"Now when we go for our seed, who do we have to rely on,"
Renaud wonders.
Renaud adds that OMAFRA is putting an end to "third party
research," leaving the companies actually making the product
to do their own research "rather than Guelph University." She
says it means for individual companies "your results can be
whatever you want them to be.”
--Ellie Renaud, Provincial Director in Leeds County for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
January 2000, Eastern Ontario AgriNews